BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1496
Author: Leno (D)
Amended: 8/18/08 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE : 4-0, 06/25/08
AYES: Negrete McLeod, Cox, Harman, Kehoe
NO VOTE RECORDED: Machado
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not Relevant
SUBJECT : Redevelopment: Treasure Island Development
Authority
SOURCE : Treasure Island Development Authority
San Francisco Gavin Newsom
DIGEST : This bill provides that Treasure Island
Development Authority does not have to form a project area
committee if it complies with four alternative
requirements, as specified.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/18/08 delete the current
language and instead provide that Treasure Island
Development authority does not have to form a project area
committee if it complies with four alternative
requirements.
ANALYSIS : The Treasure Island Conversion Act of 1997
allowed the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to designate
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a public benefit nonprofit corporation called the "Treasure
Island Development Authority" (TIDA) as the redevelopment
agency for the former navy base (AB 699, [Migden], of
1997). Governed by a board of directors that has seven
members appointed by San Francisco's mayor, TIDA has all of
the powers and duties of a redevelopment agency. Advising
TIDA is a 25-member Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island
Citizens Advisory Board. The mayor appoints 14 of the
members and the Board of Supervisors appoints the other 11
members.
When local officials get ready to adopt a redevelopment
plan, they must call upon the project area's residents and
community organizations to form a project area committee
(PAC) if either:
1. A substantial number of low- or moderate-income people
live in the project area and the redevelopment plan
allows eminent domain on residential property.
2. The redevelopment plan contains public projects that
will displace a substantial number of low- or
moderate-income people.
If the project area doesn't contain a substantial number of
low- or moderate-income people, either the redevelopment
agency must either call upon residents and community
organizations to form a PAC anyway, or the agency must
consult with the residents and community organizations
about the proposed plan.
This bill provides that the TIDA does not have to form a
project area committee if it complies with the following
four alternative requirements:
1. Consultation . TIDA must consult with the Treasure Island
Yerba Buena Island Citizens Advisory Board concerning the
redevelopment plan.
2. Resident members . TIDA must expand the Advisory Board's
membership by at least four slots for current residents,
including slots for low- and moderate-income residents.
3. Public notice and election . TIDA must hold at least one
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publicly-noticed public meeting to explain the Advisory
Board's new composition, and provide for the residents'
election to the Advisory Board at lest 60 days before
TIDA adopts the redevelopment plan.
4. Replacement housing . TIDA must offer low- and
moderate-income tenants new permanent housing at an
affordable cost to replace the housing that is removed or
demolished. This requirement must be in the
redevelopment plan.
This bill makes findings regarding the need for special
legislation.
Background
Naval Station Treasure Island is one of about 30 former
military bases in California closed by federal officials
during the 1990s. Besides the usual problems with
converting a former military base to civilian use, land use
decisions at "T.I." are complicated by the constitutional
public trust doctrine that applies to tide and submerged
lands. The 1968 Burton Act gave the San Francisco Port
Commission jurisdiction over San Francisco's tide and
submerged lands.
Unlike most places where the city council or county board
of supervisors is the redevelopment agency, San Francisco
has an appointed redevelopment agency. When considering
how to redevelop Treasure Island, San Francisco officials
worried about jurisdictional conflicts between its Port and
redevelopment agency. Because a community can have only
one redevelopment agency, San Francisco pursued special
legislation in 1997.
San Francisco officials note that there are no private
property owners because the federal government and state
continue to own Treasure Island until development begins.
TIDA's redevelopment plan will not permit eminent domain on
residential property and the plan won't permanently
displace low- or moderate-income people because they're
eligible for the new housing that will be built. TIDA
wants to rely on the Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island
Citizens Advisory Board instead of forming a PAC.
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Treasure Island has nearly 2,000 residents living in about
800 units of former military housing under private
management, including almost 250 units for formerly
homeless people. TIDA's redevelopment plan calls for
removing these housing and building 6,000 new residential
units with 30 percent of the new units set-aside for low-
and moderate-income people. The current tenants get a
preference to rent or buy the new housing.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/19/08)
Treasure Island Development Authority (co-source)
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (co-source)
Community Housing Project
Toolworks
Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative
Treasure Island Wetlands Project
AGB:do 8/19/08 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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